(Letter Written By My Father)
Mayo, Fla.,
Jan.,15,1939.
(To day, for the first time, came into my possession, a letter written by my Father, to
my Mother. G.W.S.Ware.)
Gordon )
March
14 1860
La. )
My
dear wife & beloved children I drop
you all these lines for the purpose of informing you that I am well
to day and hope these lines may find you all well you know of course
I have nothing or no news that would interest you I shall go north
from this point I wrote to you from Shreveport La in my next I will
instruck where to write to me I hope I shall do well do the best you
can till we meet
your husband till death
Robt Ware
Lewis I hope you will do the best you can till we meet
R Ware
The above letter is an exacit copy, punctuation and spelling, and arrangement of letter
form. My Father must have been pressed for time. In 1869, I remember reading his letter
From Shreveport to my Mother, but do not remember any thing he wrote. The above letter was
kept by my brother Robert, who died last July, at 90. I did not know he had it. It was
found among his papers.
I value this letter because my father wrote it, and it fixes the date he left Georgia.
I thought it was a year or so earlier. By it I reckon, correctly, the family chronology.
Lewis, my brother, 20 years old at that time and in charge of the crop. My next brother
was Jule, 15, and later lost his life in battle of Jonesboro, Georgia. Lewis fought
through the Civil War, and all of us farmed together two years after the War, then Lewis
died. Then brother Robert farmed on with my help, till 1869 then mother died. Then Bob and
sister Sallie and I came to Florida.
